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Ralph Blessing

You are joking!!

“A serious violation must also have the substantial possibility for death or serious injury” is a catch all phrase that any OSHA Regional Administrator can utilize to make a citation “serious”. Can you guarantee a fall from six feet or greater is going to cause a more serious injury than a fall while standing? NO!! This is another one of those “bureaucratic banterings of complete BS” that makes the system a failure!!

There should be a requirement on the part of OSHA to “prove beyond a doubt” the violation was in fact “serious”. I have read too many instances where a “serious” citation was issued and there is no substantive evidence to prove it as such other than “a possibility exists”.

Good grief the possibility exists that the OSHA CO has no knowledge at all about what they are looking at!!

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